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Religion Quotes


"I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand."


"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."


"The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence."


"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."


"Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds."


"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."


"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."


"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."


"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."


"I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair."


"The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion."


"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."


"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window."


"As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time."


"I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours."


"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."


"Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me."


"God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!"


"Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home."


"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."


"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."


"If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. The death of the Son must be real. Father Martin assured me it was. But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste for death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to the mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love. That was Father Martin's answer."


"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."


"For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness."


"Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God."


"Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God."


"In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power."


"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."


"Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret."


"I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life."


"While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years."


"Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger."


"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world."


"For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties."


"There is no Master but the Master, he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet."


"Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider."


"The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights."
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